linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:05:37 -0600
From:	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kim Naru <kim.naru@....com>,
	Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum
 793

On 1/17/2014 11:42 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Hence the question: did an unfixed BIOS ever make it into a shipping
> production system?  Because if it did, we do have a coverage hole.
>
> 	-hpa
>

Right, and the answer to your question is: there is a *chance* it did.. 
 From internal discussions, I could
gather that the fix went into BIOS code earlier for desktop/mobile 
versions than it did for server versions;

So there is a chance production systems (desktop ones) might never see 
the issue, but server ones will, as
BIOSes spun only from now onwards will have the workaround..

-Aravind.

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